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Behind the News: Beyond the Capitalist E...

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Aaron Benanav, author of a recent article for New Left Review, outlines possibilities for a democratically planned economy. Jerome Nikolai Warren examines the possibilities for cooperatives.

Behind the News, hosted by Doug Henwood, covers the worlds of economics and politics and their complex interactions, from the local to the global.

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